box elder man sentenced for using computer
to engage in criminal sexual conduct

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 17, 2014

Contact: Ace Crawford
605-341-1915

United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Box Elder, South Dakota, man convicted of Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on January 10, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.

Craig Joshua Weires, age 23, was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment, 10 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.

In April 2013, while executing a search warrant on Weires’s home, law enforcement authorities found child pornographic videos on Weires’s computer, which he had downloaded off the Internet.

The investigation was conducted by the Rapid City Police Department, Pennington County Sheriff's Office, South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation, Office of Special Investigations from Ellsworth Air Force Base, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah B. Collins.

Weires was immediately turned over to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.